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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]LOL, citing Wikipedia for anything.[/quote]

This is such a tired gripe - yes for obscure pages, but most established Wikipedia pages are well-sourced and reliable now.[/quote]

It may be tired but I wouldn't cite wikipedia on any issue of importance or controversy.  One "established" wikipedia page was the bane of my professional existence for a while -- a chart in my area of expertise kept popping up everywhere, and it was flat wrong.  I was running academics referring to this chart, students, professional colleagues, etc., and I just couldn't figure out how so many people kept relying on the same incorrect chart, where it was coming from.  Finally I belatedly discovered that it was on a widely-cited wikpedia page, and tons of people were using that as their source for information on my topic.

I was eventually able to get it corrected on wikipedia but it was incredible to me that so many people were willing to cite wikipedia "information" uncritically without looking seriously into whether it was actually correct.  [/quote]

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